Price railway



- (No Model.)

' PaleritedAug, 15,1893.

. WITNESSES: I

Ki -w UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. PRICE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE PRICERAILWAY APPLIANCE COMPANY, OF PENNSYLVANIA.

TRUSS RAIL-JOINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 503,254, dated August15, 1893.

Application filed Apn'l 18, 1892. Serial No. 429,586- (No model.)

To 61/ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. PRICE, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvementin Truss Rail-Joints, whichimprovement is fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a pair .of joint plates formed as hereinafterdescribed, each plate being adapted to embrace the opposite flanges oftwo meeting rails in a deep groove in its head, which forms the top ofan angle bar whose foot meets its fellow midway under the rail, saidplates having shoulders at each end adapted to rest upon the adjacentcross ties, while their bodies suspended between the ties, formasupporting truss which carries the two rails across the interveningspace.

It also consists in means substantially as described for stiffening thebodies of the plates in such manner that they give firm support to therails at their meeting point between the ties.

It also consists in forming the joint plates with deep grooves which areadapted to receive the flanges of the rails andpermit the plates to bedriven closely together as the surfaces wear.

Figure 1 represents a top or plan view of the plates for forming a railjoint embodying my invention, the rails being omitted. Figs. 2 andtrepresent side elevations taken respectively from the inner and outersides thereof. Fig. 3 represents an end view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

Referring to the drawings: A designates the heads of the joint plates,the same being enlarged and preferably rounded and formed with groovesB, which are of such depth that V spaces B exist between the side edgesof the flanges of the rails and inner ends of the grooves, so that theplates may be driven up,

so as to be brought close together when the surfaces wear.

Depending from the heads A are the webs C, and from the lower endsthereof project in lateral direction, the feet D, forming angle bars,the opposite feet whereof meet midway under the rail.

The plates extend beyond I form on the same the ribs E and F, the samebeing respectively on the inner and outer faces of-said bodies at themiddle and ends thereof, thus providing a firm support for the rails attheir meeting point between the ties.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by'Letters Patent, is

1. A metallic truss for a rail joint composed of plates having headswith end shoulders adapted to rest upon the cross ties, and a body orweb portion provided with ribs, substantially as described.

2. Two joint plates of the general shape of an angle bar topped by ahead deeply grooved and adapted to embrace in its grooves the flanges oftwo meeting T or other rails, the body, thereof being ribbed along itsedges and in the middle, adapted to hang between terminal shouldersresting upon both rails and cross ties, to carry the two rails like abeam truss at the point of their meeting, the joint plates being boltedtogether firmly beneath the rails, substantially as described.

3. A joint consisting of two ribbed and shouldered joint plates, havingheads deeply guttered to embrace the meeting rails by firmly graspingtheir flanges in the grooves, feet shaped in section like an angle barand meeting midway under the rails, shoulders at their ends resting uponboth rails and ties, and a body suspended between the ties, bolted toeach other beneath the rails and thus constituting a beam truss to graspand carry the rails at their point of meeting, substantially asdescribed.

45. A pair of joint plates each shaped like an angle bar with headsembracing firmly in deep grooves the flanges of two T or other railroadrails at and near their point of meeting, the plates terminating at eachend in a shoulder resting in part upon the rail and in part on the crosstie supporting the rail, the

body, being stiifened and strengthened by ribs along its edges and inthe middle, to carry the rails like a beam truss at the point ofmeeting, being bolted to its fellow beneath the rails,with space orallowance in the grooves and outside of the flanges to drive them closeras the surfaces wear, substantially as described.

5. Two ribbed and shouldered angle bars comprising heads deeply gutteredto embrace the flanges of railway rails, having depth to that groove orgutter beyond the point to which the flange at first can penetrate,carrying the rails as a joint between the ties upon which the railsrest, the shoulders of the angle bars or plates resting upon both railand tie,

while their body carries the two rails as a truss at their meetingpoint, substantially as described.

6. An angle bar joint with heads which embrace the rail flange firmly ina deep groove extending beyond the edge of the flange when tightlygripped at first, so as to admit of further entrance as the surfaceswear, the body of the joint being stiffened at its edges and center bystout ribs, hanging between the ties and carrying the rails as a trussover the intervening space, substantially as described.

JAMES M. PRICE.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS.

